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🐟Arapaima gigas
De arapaima (Arapaima gigas), ook wel bekend als de pirarucu, is een vis die voorkomt in het Amazonegebied van Brazilië, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru en Venezuela. Het is een van de grootste zoetwatervissen ter wereld. Hij is de enige vis van het gelijknamige geslacht Arapaima en behoort tot de familie van de beentongvissen (Arapaimidae). Onderzoek wees echter uit dat het bij de arapaima waarschijnlijk niet om één soort gaat, maar om vier soorten.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.
- Body mass
- 200 kg
- Body length
- 2 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Arapaima gigas
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass200 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2 mrecord 4.5 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Trophic level3.46FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.46 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l200 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Arapaima gigas yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderOsteoglossiformes
- ›familyArapaimidae
- ›genusArapaima
- ›speciesArapaima gigas
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderOsteoglossiformes
- familyOsteoglossidae
- genusArapaima
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderOsteoglossiformes
- familyOsteoglossidae
- genusArapaima
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